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Over the years, shopping for me has just gotten easier and easier.  Go to Amazon.com and go nuts in the book section.  This Christmas I am once again happily surrounded by a stack of books.

This year’s haul included Twain’s Feast, the Autobiography of Mark Twain, The Millennium Trilogy, Cleopatra: A Life, Operation Mincemeat and Earth: The Book.

I realize that I would probably be a great candidate for a Kindle or Nook or iPad for reading, but I just can’t bring myself to do it.  I just love real books too much.  I love the weight of a hardcover in my hand, the feel of the paper and the satisfying “thump” when you close a book when you finish it.  You just can’t do that with an electronic reader.  Also, I never have to worry about the battery going dead on a book.  You also can’t make cute bookmarks for electronic readers.

As long as I am alive, the print publishing industry will still have one customer.

First, I’ll be perfectly honest – I thought JD Salinger was already dead. But hey, that’s what you get when you become a recluse.

I read Catcher in the Rye in high school. I didn’t have to read it for a class, though. (It’s weird, it seems most of my English classes didn’t have the traditional reading lists, and every year I’d get, “Didn’t you read this last year?” “No.”  Made college fun, too.)

But, I read it anyway. Personally, I found it to be a victim of the hype. It seriously had zero impact on me.  This could be an indicator that I was a complete unfeeling bitch at the time, but all I remember thinking was, “Your life sucks, we get it.”  I really could not fathom what the big deal was over the whole thing.

Whatever your point may have been JD, it was lost on me.  Sorry about that.